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found that her state of health was perfect. We are well aware of the great care it is usual to exercise in such examinations.

It is thus impossible to avoid the conclusions that Madame de Paw was not attacked by the disease that killed her till the day before her death; that up to that period she had enjoyed good health, and had never been seriously ill, and that finally it was somehow her interest to make others believe that her health was seriously deranged, for she had exaggerated the effects of a fall she had had, and had, without any real occasion, consulted a large number of physicians for some ill-defined complaint.

In conclusion we should observe-1st, that Madame de Paw was about two months pregnant, and that this commencement of pregnancy may have caused her some disturbance of the digestive functions; 2nd, that she repeatedly alluded to her employment, by the advice of non-medical persons, of very active medicines, such as prussic acid and digitaline, as though she had a presentiment that she would die with all the symptoms of poisoning by this latter substance. The conclusions to which I arrived from the foregoing are:

1. That Madame de Paw died of poison.

2. The poison that killed her was one of those derived from the vegetable world of such a nature as to leave no characteristic traces in the organs, which cannot be isolated by chemical analysis, but which reveal their presence by their effects, and are discoverable by the fatal action they exercise on living creatures.

3. We obtained from the matters ejected by Madame de Paw on the floor of her room, and also from the organs subjected to analysis a very energetic poisonous principle, which, when administered to animals, produced effects analogous to those experienced by Madame de Paw, and caused them to die in the same way.

4. These effects and their actions have a great resemblance to those of digitaline, and though we cannot say positively that it was the case, we have strong reasons for presuming that Madame de Paw died of poisoning by digitalis.

5. This lady was not really ill before the day previous to her drath; the pretended affections of the heart and stomach for remedies n consulted various physicians one after the other, as and revive serious consequences she ascribed to a fall of no imthat these sy so many fables invented by herself or to which she place in our e

6. The post-mortem examination showed in the most positive manner that her death was caused neither by the consequences of the fall nor by internal hæmorrhage, nor by acute or chronic gastritis, nor by perforation of the stomach, nor by any other natural

cause.

Hahnemann's Correspondence.

The following, in many respects, interesting letter of Hahnemann, Dr. Hirschel obtained through the kindness of SurgeonMajor Dr. von Bulmerincq, whose wife is the daughter of Hahnemann's correspondent. C. Bernh. Trinius was born in 1778, at Eisleben, and was the son of the clergyman Ant. Bernh. Trinius, and his wife Charlotte, sister of the renowned founder of Homœopathy. His father died early, his mother married later the General Superintendent Dr. Müller, of Eisleben. Our Trinius took his degree in 1802, from 1804 he practised medicine in Courland, where he was much beloved; in 1808 he was appointed physician to the Duchess Antoinette of Würtemberg, he travelled with her through Germany and Russia, and was equally distinguished as a botanist, a physician, and a poet. After the death of the duchess, in 1824, he was appointed physician to the emperor (he had acted since 1823 as teacher of botany in Petersburg), and in 1829, tutor to the crown prince; in 1836 he visited, as the request of the Imperial Academy, the chief botanical collections of foreign countries, and after repeated attacks of apoplexy in Munich and Dresden, in 1837 and '38, he died of general dropsy, in 1844, in Petersburg, in the bosom of his family. Equally distinguished by his gifts of head and heart, he was universally respected. About 1830 he retired from medical practice, devoted himself zealously to the study of homœopathy at his desk, as formerly he had at the sick bed, and in correspondence with his uncle. Thirty-three monographs on botanical subjects, many manuscripts of a similar description, four works on other subjects, some of them medical (On the Hair and Teeth), some on natural history, and a volume of excellent poetry (Berlin, 1848, with a biography of the author), testify to the extent of his acquirements, and the talents of this highly cultivated and worthy

man.

found that her state of health was perfect. We are well aware of the great care it is usual to exercise in such examinations.

It is thus impossible to avoid the conclusions that Madame de Paw was not attacked by the disease that killed her till the day before her death; that up to that period she had enjoyed good health, and had never been seriously ill, and that finally it was somehow her interest to make others believe that her health was seriously deranged, for she had exaggerated the effects of a fall she had had, and had, without any real occasion, consulted a large number of physicians for some ill-defined complaint.

In conclusion we should observe—1st, that Madame de Paw was about two months pregnant, and that this commencement of pregnancy may have caused her some disturbance of the digestive functions; 2nd, that she repeatedly alluded to her employment, by the advice of non-medical persons, of very active medicines, such as prussic acid and digitaline, as though she had a presentiment that she would die with all the symptoms of poisoning by this latter substance. The conclusions to which I arrived from the foregoing are:

1. That Madame de Paw died of poison.

2. The poison that killed her was one of those derived from the vegetable world of such a nature as to leave no characteristic traces in the organs, which cannot be isolated by chemical analysis, but which reveal their presence by their effects, and are discoverable by the fatal action they exercise on living creatures.

3. We obtained from the matters ejected by Madame de Paw on the floor of her room, and also from the organs subjected to analysis a very energetic poisonous principle, which, when administered to animals, produced effects analogous to those experienced by Madame de Paw, and caused them to die in the same way.

4. These effects and their actions have a great resemblance to those of digitaline, and though we cannot say positively that it was the case, we have strong reasons for presuming that Madame de Paw died of poisoning by digitalis.

5. This lady was not really ill before the day previous to her death; the pretended affections of the heart and stomach for remedies a consulted various physicians one after the other, as and revive serious consequences she ascribed to a fall of no imthat these sy so many fables invented by herself or to which she place in our e

6. The post-mortem examination showed in the most positive manner that her death was caused neither by the consequences of the fall nor by internal hæmorrhage, nor by acute or chronic gastritis, nor by perforation of the stomach, nor by any other natural

cause.

Hahnemann's Correspondence.

The following, in many respects, interesting letter of Hahnemann, Dr. Hirschel obtained through the kindness of SurgeonMajor Dr. von Bulmerincq, whose wife is the daughter of Hahnemann's correspondent. C. Bernh. Trinius was born in 1778, at Eisleben, and was the son of the clergyman Ant. Bernh. Trinius, and his wife Charlotte, sister of the renowned founder of Homœopathy. His father died early, his mother married later the General Superintendent Dr. Müller, of Eisleben. Our Trinius took his degree in 1802, from 1804 he practised medicine in Courland, where he was much beloved; in 1808 he was appointed physician to the Duchess Antoinette of Würtemberg, he travelled with her through Germany and Russia, and was equally distinguished as a botanist, a physician, and a poet. After the death of the duchess, in 1824, he was appointed physician to the emperor (he had acted since 1823 as teacher of botany in Petersburg), and in 1829, tutor to the crown prince; in 1836 he visited, as the request of the Imperial Academy, the chief botanical collections of foreign countries, and after repeated attacks of apoplexy in Munich and Dresden, in 1837 and '38, he died of general dropsy, in 1844, in Petersburg, in the bosom of his family. Equally distinguished by his gifts of head and heart, he was universally respected. About 1830 he retired from medical practice, devoted himself zealously to the study of homoeopathy at his desk, as formerly he had at the sick bed, and in correspondence with his uncle. Thirty-three monographs on botanical subjects, many manuscripts of a similar description, four works on other subjects, some of them medical (On the Hair and Teeth), some on natural history, and a volume of excellent poetry (Berlin, 1848, with a biography of the author), testify to the extent of his acquirements, and the talents of this highly cultivated and worthy

man.

Hahnemann's letter to his nephew, Trinius, is as follows:

My dear Nephew,—Your proposal shows a confidence in me which I would wish to deserve. But as you cannot know how inevitable and intolerable the obstacles, insults, and persecutions are wont to be, that a true homoeopathic physician who settles to practise in any part of Germany, as an unprotected stranger, has to endure, I cannot advise any homeopathist to take such a step on his own account. It would plunge him into misery. Allopathic intrigue has in such a case ample room to indulge its wellknown malignity against medical innovators, under the pretence of an old legal right against those who give medicines to their patients. And in this they are supported by the legal authorities whose family physicians they are.

"What does the horrid man want here? He belongs to no legitimate and authorised body, either of the country or of this place, nor can he become such, as he is a cursed homœopath. He is not a native of these parts, and cannot be naturalised, as he possesses not an inch of land, and is a dangerous homœopath. We have the power so to twist and turn the old laws on medical matters, although they only refer to the rights of apothecaries to make up allopathic mixtures, that the homoeopath shall also be compelled to get, and to make his patients get, all his simple drugs (simplicia) from the inimical apothecary, although he does not understand how to prepare them-from the apothecary, who, in order to upset the hated homeopathy, that threatens to set bounds to his usurious profits, must feel a strong inclination to put no medicine, or a wrong one, into the little powders, since such small doses cannot be detected by analysis, and he cannot therefore be convicted of fraud: but a homoeopathist who is given over to the caprice of the apothecary, and has no power to dispense his medicines to his patients, is a mere nonenity, like a painter without the permission to prepare his own colours, or even And though he should get over these difficulties, whenever one of his patients dies, we can bring a criminal action against him, because he refuses to follow the rules of our ancient school, and thus, by means of our artful persecutions of his patients, and by sowing broadcast all sorts of calumnies, he will be so plagued and humbled, that, with the loss of fortune and health, he will be forced to decamp to a distance, which is the great desire of us, the dominant (satanic) old medical corporation."

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